Microsoft Warns That Windows 11 AI Might Install Malware On Your PC - Kotaku
Microsoft Warns That Windows 11 AI Might Install Malware On Your PC - Kotaku
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Just a moment...
Um.... What the f....
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Uhh, they know there's security issue yet they pushed ahead. Wat.
Sounds like big boss man is giving them stupid deadline and they're forced to push stuff out asap. Whoever work at MS Defender is gonna be disappointed.
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Well yeah, end users are just LLM data sources now. The actual customers are the companies, who will have several ways to opt out
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malware installs malware
As expected. Nothing new here, carry on.
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Before Windows 11 only users and hackers could install malware on your PC. Now you do not need to bother at all - your system will destroy itself for you.
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Amazing, will it fall for my phishing emails to
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As these capabilities are introduced, AI models still face functional limitations in terms of how they behave and occasionally may hallucinate and produce unexpected outputs. Additionally, agentic AI applications introduce novel security risks, such as cross-prompt injection (XPIA), where malicious content embedded in UI elements or documents can override agent instructions, leading to unintended actions like data exfiltration or malware installation.
What the F... Indeed...
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"novel security risks"
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Sounds like a logical upgrade from current Windows 11 automatically installing malware in the form of Windows 11 updates.
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So essentially, you need to make a malware that activates the agents instead of users doing that, which is likely not to be classified as a malware since there may be legit reasons to do that. And then you can use that agent to get your actual malware in. Sounds horrible overall.